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[The Witcher Thread] HEARTS OF STONE xp out 13/10/15. Comes with 2 physical gwent decks
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REAL TIME BEARD GROWTH. WITCHING EVOLVED.
PLACE YOUR BETS FEB 24th May 19, 2015 on xbone ps4 and PeeCee!
The only hype you need:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtVdAasjOgU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-l29HlKkXU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYwe_WHARdc 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBoCRYX6Vq0That 90's chocobo racing obsession is back!
PRE-ORDER NOW FROM GOG! If you own Witcher 1 and 2 on gog you can get a big discount! 27% off! Also comes with beta access to Witcher Adventure board game! A free copy of Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Edition! and all the usual digital goodies you'd expect from GOG, Comics! Soundtracks! Artbooks! Maps! Fun! Exclamation points!
Collectors edition! BLOODY EXPENSIVE (94 quid! 129 quids!)
But pre-order from all the usual retail/online places! I have! TOO LATE SOLD OUT
System Requirements revealed edit: these min specs are overthetop, so dont worry if you fall below. if you could run witcher 2 at ultra and get between 40-60fps you'll be fine running witcher 3 at 30fps with a mix of medium/high/ultra
Minimum System Requirements
Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz
AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660
AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
RAM 6GB
OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
DirectX 11
HDD Space 40 GB
Recommended System Requirements
Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz
AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770
AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
RAM 8GB
OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
DirectX 11
HDD Space 40 GB
Retrospectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiqMr0OvQog 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSftIRQzYCMQuick recap of the story so far...
EXPANSIONS AND DLC!
There will be 16 FREE dlcs released with what seems to be (so far) 2 released each week. so far announced are:
Temerian Armour set (released!)
Beard and Hairstyle set (released!)
Alternate Look for Yennefer
Contract: Missing Miners
the rest have not been announced yet.
2 Major Expansions! proper addons!
These are paid and you can buy the pass now at gog/steam!
Heart of Stone is scheduled for release October 2015
Heart of Stone will be a major expansion that will total at over 10 hours of additional content.
Geralt will adventure into the wilds of No Man's Land and the nooks and alleys of Oxenfurt, where he will try to complete a contract from the mysterious Man of Glass.
Caught in a thick tangle of deceit, Geralt will need all his cunning and strength to solve the mystery and emerge unscathed.
Blood and Wine is scheduled for release first quarter 2016
Blood and Wine is a major expansion that will total at over 20 hours of additional content.
A tale that will introduce the all-new in-game region of Toussaint, will take Geralt to a land untainted by war, where an atmosphere of carefree indulgence and knightly ritual masks an ancient, bloody secret.
MODS!:
http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/? (WARNING -SOON TO BE NSFW- NEXUS: this is the nexus/internet afterall so i figured a warning was due, there is nothing weird on there yet but give it time, give it time.)
https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/970/
of course the game is moddable, no word on when official tools will be released but they are coming! so far we have a lot of ease of life stuff for any of the those rpg mechanics you probably don't like and lots of "recolour my game!" options.
SCREENSHOTS:
if you install this mod: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/28/? it unlocks the debug menu (it doesn't overwrite anything either) which you can bring down with ` as usual.
now if you're fighting or find a decent screen ripe for combat, hit esc to pause, then bring the console and do this:
1: type "testpause" this pauses the game fully. (without the quotes)
2: hit f1 to turn on freecam. you can now move the camera around (works with gamepad too i've heard)
3: you can turn off all hud elements via the hud config menu, all except creature names when you look at them, its a bit annoying.
4: once you've set up a shot and taken a screenshot (with fraps or your screenshot program of choice) hit f1 to come out of freecam and then pause the game again and type in the console "testunpause"
pausing the game again before you type testunpause is important if you are in the middle of a fight. you can still use free cam via f1 without pausing if you want do something like this:
Performance Tips:
A thread over at cdprojekred has a compendium of tweaks and performance tips with a breakdown of which graphics settings does which/fps cost.
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/36088-A-compendium-of-tweaks-and-fixes-for-the-PC-version?p=1658887#post1658887
also contains a quick, texture improvement ini. setting tweak which features no fps hit!
Navigate to "...\Documents\The Witcher 3" and open the "user.settings" file with a text editor such as Notepad, then manually add the following section and variable at the very end:
[Streaming/Textures]
UseMipRefiner=true
The addition of this variable will force the game to use much higher quality mip textures, improving the visual fidelity of the game at little to no performance cost! See it in action - ON, OFF
Remember to save your changes upon closing the "user.settings" file!
Some quick tips and tricks from the good folks in the thread.
Shadows are the biggest fps drain, putting them on low will still give you shadows on anything but save you 10
foliage distance is a killer too when at high or ultra, water too and so is in-game AA (if you want better AA at a low fps cost, check out Reshade and apply SMAA)
i have below min specs and i can run the game with textures, details, landmass all at ultra and get 30fps, it will flux from 22 to 30 but turn off fraps and it's barely noticeable and i play on Death March (though not at 1080p, 1360x768 is my native monitor res and SMAA takes care of the lower resolution jaggies)
Morninglord wrote: »http://www.pcgamer.com/durantes-witcher-3-analysis-the-alchemy-of-smoothness/
it describes how to get extremely smooth gameplay with little input lag. really ups the games general responsiveness to inputs.
if you're playing PC with an xbox controller, go to whatever folder your game is installed in and then open "The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\config\platform\pc\", open the "platformgameplay.ini" with notepad or something and make this change:
LeftStickSensitivity=1.0
really makes a big difference in regards to movement, much more fluid/responsive, try it out. you may not like it if you're used to the awkward start/stopping and stumbling about.
Ok something that may be viable to go into the OP:
Stacking Delusion with Puppet will screw it up where puppet when holding Q will not cast. After the last time of not having delusion equipped and going into a conversation that I could have used it, I looked for an answer online. If you go to my documents\witcher 3 and open up input.settings (NOT input.qwerty in your witcher 3 steam folder) with notepad, do a ctrl+f on castsignhold and modify:
IK_Q=(Action=CastSignHold,State=Duration,IdleTime =0.2)
Change the 0.2 to 0.01
You will need to do this for multiple entries, just keep letting it find castsignhold until you get to the bottom (around 4 entries or so?)
It fixed it for me at least and I'm guessing next patch will probably resolve it anyway.
Deaderinred wrote: »ATTENTION GOG GALAXY/SWEETFX USERS:
the latest gog galaxy and witcher 3 dlc update fucking breaks sweetfx usage for no known reason. you can fix this shit by deleting the "d3d11.dll" that it adds (for no fucking reason) from the witcher 3 bin dir where sweetfx is installed and the exe is located. YOU WILL NEED TO REINSTALL reshade/sweetfx via the dll install system too, if you dont know what im talking about then you dont use reshade/sweetfx that way you can run it through steam again and run sweetfx again.
jesus i almost had an heart attack by this.
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edit: just realized i still haven't found the horse racing track yet.
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Only males can survive the Trial of the Grasses.
Plus nobody knows how to perform the Trial any more. The knowledge was lost when Kaer Morhen was attacked. Vesemir was the only survivor who was a teacher there and he was a fencing instructor, not in charge of the mutagens. The other Witchers were all out on the Path during the attack.
I love that picture so much.
Think I've finally met my match in Gwent after breezing through everybody else. Might have to hold off on challenging her for awhile. Can't see myself breaking through the way her cards keep hitting those evil combo effects.
Monster decks are terrifying if you don't draw a cold card though. Fuck that.
Fun Fact: The Snow White story is actually an event in the Witcher universe, with a grimdark twist.
Spoilers for the books I guess?
Right now, she's got the numbers and synergy over me. I could probably beat her if I went twenty rounds or so but the odds seem really in her favor.
Biting cold definitely but I think its my ragtag deck doing me right now.
Also, I love the completely mundane, boring, and hysterical fetch quests Geralt is often sent on by the peasantry. They're awesome.
Biting cold did indeed save the day. Just barely.
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Building my Monster deck and that's exactly what I would do. Squirrels have some cards like that as well, which are pretty good. Essentially only keep ONE of the "Muster" cards and guaranteed to put up big numbers.
I just got to the right level and crafted a matching set of enhanced griffin swords. they're really beautiful, a nice gold trim on the scabbards. and they match on the back, which is great.
it's a shame the griffin chest armor gives Geralt a beer belly.
Neither.
That's what the mutton chops and moustache combo is for.
More on that
Yeah that part of the game was a pretty big spoiler for the books for me
Also, muster cards in Gwent are fucking bullshit.
Yep, that's after doing a bunch of side quest investigations in Witcher 2.
Honestly he looks like a grumpy old man most of the time.
A very dirty, grumpy old man.
More specifically
Basically the Wild Hunt comes from a world where the elves are highly imperialistic, racist and xenophobic. They immediately slaughtered all of the humans that landed on their own world with the conjuction and want to do the same with Geralt's world.
Monster decks are the easiest to deal with - the problems are when you play against a high level Northern Kingdoms or Nilfgaard, and they proceed to draw half their deck with nearly half a dozen spies and then just card you out of existence.
Avallac'h is the most bullshit spy card on the planet.
It's also assumed(though not outright explained one way or the other) that the other Witcher schools also are no longer capable of creating new Witchers, but this game still explores painfully little by way of Witcher lore outside of the gear hunt quests.
Last night I was doing a quest and Geralt had a delightful pun battle with Yennefer about a werewolf problem. It was amazing. I love his humour.
Book spoilers
Trying to win the horse races but he keeps randomly freaking out on a clear path for no damn reason. Stopping and allowing Boghdan to get ahead. Ugh.
Like, it kinda seemed as though Caranthir (being a genetic approximation of Ciri's bloodline) was able to zip-zap-zoop legions of goons and ice dogs willy nilly.
The way you win horse races is by being a complete and total dick, akin to going 30 in a 55 mph zone.
Gallop only enough to get yourself ahead, then stay at a cantor but (and this is crucial) make sure you keep blocking the idiot trying to overtake you. Running at the cantor makes sure you have enough stamina available in case you fuck up. Making sure Roach's ass is planted firmly in front of the other horse's face means that they can't get ahead of you.
Also the whirlwind ability is amazing. My GoTY hands down.
Roach really doesn't like bridges in those races though. Hates em.
If I want to craft something, and the vendor has the goods in stock, just fucking let me hit X to simultaneously buy the goods and make the product.
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